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Tulsi Gabbard

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first: 2024-04-02
most recent: 2024-04-02
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“There wasn't anything that happened in our camp that didn't have the KBR Halliburton logo imprinted on it. We had a big shack looking place where we ate our meals. They call it a dining facility, a DFAC in the military. And they served four meals a day. They brought in and they, being KBR Haliburton, they imported workers in from places like Nepal and Sri Lanka and the Philippines to come in and cook food and work at this dining facility. I got curious about how much it cost us as taxpayers. And so I started asking around some of the people and I think at that time it was like, well, every time a soldier or a service member walks through the door. I were to go in for breakfast and grab a banana and walk out, that's an automatic $35.”
2024-04-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Experiencing firsthand that high human cost of war caused me 20 something year old from Hawaii I had left my seat in the state legislature to volunteer to deploy with my brothers and sisters in my unit to Iraq and so recognize the cost of war I think in two fundamental ways number one is the high human cost of war on our troops and on the people in the country where this war was being waged and also the cost on American taxpayers Seeing then back is again 2005 and recognizing KBR Halliburton, one of the biggest defense contracting companies then and I know that they are still very much in that business now Dick Cheney being connected with that company at one point or another but in our camp specifically which was one of the larger ones in Iraq at that time”
2024-04-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Army Medical Center, which was here in Texas that specialized in burn related injuries or too all to reed, and tracking them and their care until they were finally home with their families. And it never became a routine task. It never became like Okay, cool, check the list, you know, kind of dot the I's cross the T's. It was that daily confrontation with the reality of the cost of war. Friends of mine were killed in combat.”
2024-04-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Operating in four different areas of Iraq. And my first task every day was to go through a list of every injury, combat related injury that had occurred the day before in the country. And I went through that list name by name looking to see if any one of our nearly 3,000 soldiers from Hawaii had been hurt in the line of duty. And then if seeing them on the list, tracking them down, where were they? Were they getting the care they needed? Would they be able to get sufficient care to stay in country and return to duty? Did I need to get them evacuated? Usually it would be to military hospitals that at that time were in Laundstool and Ramstein in Germany. And then from there getting them to either Brooklyn.”
2024-04-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So many central to those lessons learned was having my eyes open to the very real cost of war. Of course, I served in a medical unit during that first deployment to Iraq. It was 2005 during the height of that war. And unfortunately, we took a lot of casualties. We across the entire U.S. military. My brigade that I deployed with was from the Hawaii National Guard.”
2024-04-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source